The Betrayal now available in Dutch

Een boeiende biografische roman over Johannes Calvijn. Verteld vanuit het perspectief van een leeftijdgenoot en rivaal van Calvijn, Jean-Louis, volgen we het leven van de grote reformator op de voet. De jaloezie van Jean-Louis escaleert in gewelddadige intrige en schaamteloos verraad. Maar uiteindelijk is Calvijn het middel in Gods hand om de vicieuze cirkel van verbittering te doorbreken.

Audio preview of Guns of Providence--now available

GUNS OF PROVIDENCE the third and last book in the FAITH & FREEDOM TRILOGY, is in the publication process, scheduled to release, June, 2010. Listen to a new audio excerpt at www.douglasbond.webs.com. Entangled in War for Independence Colonial America, the protagonist Sandy M'Kethe, great-grandson of Duncan and Angus's father of the same name in the CROWN & COVENANT TRILOGY, must sort through the labyrinth of loyalties assaulting his faith and arrayed against his very life.

"Like G.A. Henty in an earlier era, Douglas Bond offers a ringside seat on the War for Independence. Bond is a historian with unusual insight, tracing a Scottish Covenanter immigrant family and revealing the truly British origins of the American Revolution."

Russ Pulliam, Indianapolis Star

New Hymn based on Ephesians 2:11-22

We hail the Christ, the Cornerstone;

We’re reconciled by him alone!

Not Jew nor Gentile, bond nor free,

A commonwealth of unity;

Our Lord has from the two made one,

And with his blood our peace has won.

Brought near in Christ, the Prince of Peace,

Our envy, strife, and warfare cease;

For tribes and tongues, and strangers all,

Our Peace has broken down the wall;

New covenant mercy he extends

To us his fellow heirs and friends.

One faith, one hope of heav’n above,

A unity of common love;

One body made of many parts,

A unity of loving hearts;

One temple built of cast-off stone,

Made holy by the Holy One.

To Jesus Christ we lift one voice—

The household of our Father’s choice—

Whose love makes ours for others grow

And makes the watching world to know

That our abiding Cornerstone

Has made us one in Christ alone!

Douglas Bond, Copyright, December 2, 2009

Visit www.douglasbond.webs.com to see more new reformation hymns and to listen to new tunes.

New Reformation Thanksgiving Hymn

We rise and worship you, our Lord,
With grateful hearts for grace outpoured,
For you are good—O taste and see—
Great God of mercy rich and free.

A chosen son of God on high,
I trembling bow and wonder why
This Sovereign Lord—O taste and see—
In love stooped down and rescued me.

Your Son obeyed the Law for me,
Then died my death upon the tree.
O Jesus Christ, I taste and see
And marvel that you purchased me.

In might, your Spirit drew me in,
My quickened heart from death to win.
O Holy Spirit—taste and see—
My comfort, hope, and surety.

With thankful praise our hearts we give;
By grace alone we serve and live.
O Trinity, we taste and see
Your sovereign goodness full and free.

Douglas Bond, Copright, 2007. For more new hymns visit www.douglasbond.webs.com

CROWN & COVENANT TRILOGY Scotland Tour - Home

CROWN & COVENANT TRILOGY Scotland Tour - Home

Happy Reformation Day!

REFORMATION DAY, October 31, 2009
John Calvin @500

The following is a hymn text that I wrote with Paul Jones on the 5 solas of the Reformation. Note the allusions to the 5 solas in each stanza and corresponding refrain, Sola Scriptura, Sola Fide, Sola Gratia, Solus Christus, Soli Deo Gloria. Further note the allusion to John Calvin's inscription on his personal seal: "My heart I offer Thee, O Lord, promptly and sincerely," rendered in his original Latin in the title of Paul's tune, Cor meum tibi offero, Domine, prompte et sincere.

Creator God, our Sovereign Lord,

The heavens tell, the stars have shown,
Your splendor, might, and Deity,
But Truth lies in your Word alone.

My heart to you, O God, I give,
And by your Word I live.

In Truth your Word reveals my guilt,
My lost, unworthy self makes known,
But now made new I’m justified
And live and move by Faith alone.

My heart to you, O God, I give,
And now by Faith I live.

Before you made the world you chose,
In love, to send your only Son
To ransom me and make me one
With Christ, my Lord, by Grace alone.

My heart to you, O God, I give,
And now by Grace I live.

O Christ, Redeemer, Savior, King,
Subdued by grace, I am your own;
Enthrall my soul and make me free,
Reformed, redeemed by Christ alone.

My heart to you, O God, I give,
And now in Christ I live.

O glorious God, who reigns on high,
With heart in hand, before your throne,
We hymn your glory ‘round the world
With psalms adoring you alone.

My heart to you, O God, I give
And for your glory live.

Copyright, Douglas Bond, October 31, 2007
COR MEUM TIBI OFFERO Paul S. Jones, 2008

You can follow hymn developments at http://www.bondbooks.net/NEW%20HYMNS.htm and at http://douglasbondbooks.blogspot.com/. I'm working on writing another article to submit to Modern Reformation—this one on hymnody for the Modern Reformation. I have audio lectures on poetry and hymnody at http://www.douglasbond.webs.com/ as well as audio examples of some of the new reformation hymns. A lecture that might be of interest is available for listening or download here: http://www.box.net/shared/lru1ruvxqf

Guns of Providence: Artist working on book cover art

Here are some more pictures of the replica of 12-gun sloop Providence, John Paul Jones's first command in the US Navy in 1775. The artist will be studying these to create the cover art for the last Faith & Freedom Trilogy book, Guns of Providence. Watch for cover art progress to be posted soon.